ABOUT
Kat Sotelo utilizes gesture, character tropes, and set pieces to build realms in the threshold of the ordinary and the extraordinary.
These compositions evoke notions of fantasy, absurdity, architecture, and ephemera with movements ranging from subtle facial expressions to unhinged spectacle.
The framework of cinema deeply informs her modes of manipulation and documentation - playing with video and its perception of time to construct imaginative realities.
Her current work focuses on decolonization from the perspective of a first generation Filipino femme. Exploring her body as a means of currency in the American social landscape, she scrutinizes her relationship to “whiteness” through acts of deep humor and sorrow.